Xsyon is a charming survival sandbox and definitely worth a gander, especially since you can experience alot of the game as a f2p (free to play). Character progression depends on alot of grinding, so grindaholics will find this game more rewarding than others. While Xsyon is not very intuitive when it comes to figuring out how to do things, I rarely see questions unanswered in global chat.

In a nutshell, I find this game lacking. I've spend alot of time grinding many stats and skills to 100.0 (to supply myself the best of the best). With a scarce active community and a low ratio of new players sticking around for long, the majority content themselves with self sufficiency when it comes to crafted goods (most trade comes when looking for specific scavenged recipes to craft tools and buildings). As such, I never found any ground for worthwhile trading. This also means that item value is a vague thing at best.

Extremely low population and lack of development. It had 1 "major" update in 3 years which was a 30mb "Farming and Cooking" update which is a little more than basic inventory icons added to a pre-existing formula. They have raised the subscription price to fleace as much money from Steam as possible once it's release here, before it's seen to be a flop.

Stay away and invest your money into something newer, with more content and a responsive/active development team... because they are things this game doesn't have.

PART 3either, because that is a minor population, that is your current population. Look at what many of us players are posting. The fact is, pay 2 play is basically dead... Its really just a quick cash grab for new, polished corporately backed games to rake in some quick cash, before going free2play. they DO NOT have aspirations of keeping on to pay to play...they suspect it to fail, they plan on it. Its merely a way to earn quick cash for overlyhyped games. Hype it up enough, and ppl will throw money at you. But when that hype dies down...BOOM free 2 play, which works smoothly for them, because they had already planned on this happening. They were prepared. The free version was likely already made at the time the pay to play opened up. The future is micro shops, cosmetics (if you have good graphics in your game.) advantages, and subscription based benefits such as exp, gold, more inventory space, etc. Good luck, and hope things work out well for you.

PART 2made out of money from family guy online mmo.) Let me give you a few bullet points to think on:1. People like benefits. Especially those who like to feel superior to others.2. People like supporting their favorite games... Especially when they get something out of it.3. "I,ll quit if its pay to win" is a lie. See this video: http://www.slideshare.net/bcousins/paying-to-win from ben cousins who implemented pay to win on battlefield heroes. (They were hired to make free2play profitable and successful at the same time.) 4. Ghost Towns KILL games. Period. That is why most p2p games go free2play, they need popluation. No one wants to make a mmo that has no one in it. Or to encounter the same freaking people every time because theres only 66 people in your world.I do hope you read this Mr. Davis, as this game looks like it can really go places.. Really unique, but you need to take a step back, and look at your game from the standpoint as a player. Not a hardcore fanboy player

PART 1.Game looks amazing, but I don't think it will do too well due to population. Judging by the restrictions I have read, this game won't really gain anything from steam... Infact, it may get a damaged reputation even. Players are going to see the videos, get on, and then start a massive rant about "omg this game is crap, cash grab! cash grab!, 'glorified demo', 'steam lies to us again', that kind of garbage: Why is this damaging? Simple. If the developer DOES choose to change the way free2play goes about for his game, it will be too late. All we will remember is the terrible taste it left in our mouth, and much like the hot stove scenerio, we won't try to touch it again. You need players, badly, but you don't seem to understand the allure of "benefits" or "advantages"... Most games use this system now. They allow free players to experience the full extent of the game, but offer those with cash benefits that make them feel like their wearing suits of gold (or quite literally a hat

Personal opinion from a old Sub player.Too much limitations when free 2 play. That ok to give bonus when you pay for a Sub. But dont block free players or they will just leave after reached max level in skills in 1-3 days. If players feel they are limiteless versus Sub players they will never stay and in conclusion less chance that they want to Sub too improve gameplay experience and in conclusion your populations will never grow.

The population would grow I think if they weren't limiting free characters so much. I wouldn't mind if the restrictions werent skill and level based, like if you can't create houses and factions if you don't upgrade, and then add in some free monthly in game money or something for subscribers. Just saying that there are many ways that you can make money from the game, without making the limitations on skills that drives a lot of people away.

I am holding off untill the game is fully on steam, to play again as the population is too small for me atm. But this is definately a game to check out, even if you are just using this to wait for other games, like the Repopulation:PI hope my information was helpfull, and have a great time everyone!

I played this game about 6 months ago. Put in a LOT of hours:) For a survival, sandbox experience, it is really great. The only problem I see with the game now is the low population. That was a killer for me. I laugh at the new PvE server. PvP was never a problem, all you had to do was run away lol!If you are considering this game here are some things to think about.If you like Minecraft, Swg Pre-CU, Perfect World International(WIth No Cash Shop), Then you might like this game. The reason I mention those 3 games are as follows:Mincraft- Survival and building. There is plenty of that in Xsyon. Complete with food and water.SWG and PWI- Both of those games have fantastic player interdependency. Meaning that the developers came up with fantastic, creative and fun ways to force player interaction!

UPDATE #2--After the free game play period, a monthly fee of $9.99 per month is required.Reduced fees are available for Quarterly, Biannual and Yearly orders.Please add a recurring subscription or pre-paid time to extend your game play period.

You much also first purchase a gametime of $29.99 which will include the first month of game play.After that, you will need to pay $9.99 per month to continue playing.There is a "Set Time Period" to play for free. then users have to pay a subscription.Just FYI Info straight from their website....

Game has serious limitations., this is going to be a Pay to Play game. Just FYI.--Free Play includes the following limits:

Players without paid Citizen Game Account access:

Players cannot start new Tribes Players cannot join new Tribe charters Players can join tribes but they do not add to the tribe size Skills are effectively limited to 30 Players cannot use gained experience to level up

Players with Citizen Game Account access without a paid Monthly subscription:

Skills are effectively limited to 30 Players cannot use gained experience to level up

if you'r ready to pay every months for the subscription this game could be a good game for you if not just dont bother download cuz your gonna get robbed your city's will be destroyed and all your hard works will have no sense when you will log back in tomorow its clearly a pay to play don't get fooled

I don't know why you all are complaining. I mean the game is a sandbox and it dosnt hold your hand like the rest of the themepark mmorpgs out there, this is better then most of the greenlit items on here. If you dont like sandbox games dont play them. This is one of the best sandbox games I've ever played. Right along with SWG PRE CU

Hope for european server, the ping is horror. i play it a long time 2013 and now im back but the ping is now much more bad as in 2013 was. Isnt a easy game but its funny. pls make european and pve server. have 2 accounts right now but the lags sux really bad guys.

Sadly i would also downvote Xsyon, put in many hours and bought the Pre Launch edition to help support it on its way, Development is slow to a crawl <almost worse than Dayz Standalone ZING!> client is chunky needs massive optimization, and it yes, its been "Launching" several times over, put in my money into the game and feel consideribly ripped off, Great Potential in the game, but dev team needs some serious workers.... Be warey about spending the money guys, Better free stuff on market atm <and their free is a joke aswell> ;)

saaaw this on greenlight and had to respond, im in boat with Vazzaroth, very unsatisfied customer for what i paid. Probabily won't return.

This game sucks, it's Dev is terrible. I got like 3 other people to all buy this game on launch and it was nothing but failure and broken promises. There's been no significant updates since launch 2 years ago. It doesn't deliver on it's premise.